A coalition of music publishers, which includes Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappel Music and Sony Music Publishing, is suing Twitter over a “massive copyright infringement” involving their music catalogues. At stake are the rights to the music of artists...
The US Copyright Office has determined that illustrations inserted in a comic created with the Midjourney’s Artificial Intelligence cannot be protected by copyright law. The Bureau decided to revoke the copyright protection granted to Kristina Kashtanova last fall for...
ChessBase, a Hamburg-based company that markets chess software, has reached an agreement with Stockfish – an open source chess engine – settling the dispute that began in the summer of 2021, when the original developers of Stockfish, Tord Romstad and Stéphane Nicolet,...
Getty Images has banned uploads and sales of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated artwork on its site using image synthesis models such as DALL-E, Midjourney, Meta AI Make-A-Scene and Stable Diffusion. Getty is the largest user-generated content platform to...
The haute couture house Dior was recently accused of “cultural appropriation” by netizens and mainstream Chinese media (such as Global Times and People’s Daily) for launching a mid-length pleated black skirt in its “Fall 2022” collection, which would mimic the...
